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Tarheeler

Tarheeler is the alternative form of Tar Heel.

Meaning of Tar Heel

Noun

Tar Heel (plural Tar Heels)

  1. (US, slang) Synonym of North Carolinian.
    • I'm a Tar Heel born
      I'm a Tar Heel bred
      And when I die
      I'm a Tar Heel dead.
  2. (US, slang) A person associated with or supportive of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    • Michael Jordan is one of many Tar Heel basketball standouts.

See all 4 meanings of Tar Heel

Forms of Tarheeler

pluralTarheelers

Origin of Tarheeler

From Tarheel + -er.

Questions about Tarheeler

What is Tarheeler the alternative form of?
Tarheeler is the alternative form of Tar Heel.

Words near Tarheeler in the dictionary

  1. targumizing
  2. targums
  3. tarhana
  4. tarhanas
  5. Tarheel
  6. Tarheeler
  7. Tarheelers
  8. Tarheels
  9. tarhonya
  10. tari
  11. Tariana

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tarheeler (page history and authors); Tar Heel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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